MORGAN HEBARD 



365 



abruptly elevated and thickened in a truncate projection, the apical product- 

 ion thus formed nearly four times as broad as thick and slightly broader than 

 high. 12 



Allotype. — 9 ; same data as type, except that it was taken at 

 6400 feet on August 24, 1913. [Hebarcl Collection.] 



Agrees with the type except in the following features. Size much larger, 

 form decidedly more robust. Sulci and lateral carinae of the broader vertex 

 and frontal costa much weaker, present on frontal costa only about region 

 of median ocellus. Eye appreciably less than twice as long as infraocular 

 sulcus. Medio-longitudinal carina of pronotum more conspicuous, particu- 

 larly in metazonal portion. Tegmina and wings showing distinct reduction, 

 extending slightly beyond caudal femora (failing to reach this point by a 

 brief distance in the paratypic females), failing to reach the apex of the abdo- 

 men by a brief distance. Ovipositor valves with distal curvature decided 

 particularly for the dorsal pair. 



Measurements (in millimeters) 



Greatest Width 



Length width of Length of of 



_7i of Length of pronotal Length of caudal caudal 



u body pronotum disk tegmen femur femur 



Type 25.7 5.8 3.4 21 14 3.7 



Paratype 25.8 5.9 3.4 19.2 13.2 3.7 



9 



Allotype 38.2 7.4 5 23.5 17.6 4.3 



Paratypes (4) 34-40 6.8-7.5 4.6-5 18.7-23 15.8-17.3 4-4.8 



Head grayish olive, maculate with dark grayish olive, on each side with a 

 broad and shining postocular bar of blackish mummy brown. Pronotum 

 with disk heavily overlaid, except rather broadly along lateral margins where 

 the suffusion is weaker, with bone brown 13 ; lateral lobes buffy, heavily 

 flecked and suffused with bone brown, in the dorsal area the blackish mummy 

 brown postocular bar is continued, much broadened but irregular with pale 

 patches, so that the appearance is more that of a suffusion than of a bar. 

 Tegmina hair brown, flecked with blackish, particularly along median line 

 of costal fields. Wings transparent, hyaline, tinged with glass green proxi- 

 mad; veins black in all but caudal portion of axillary field, where they are 

 glass green. Cephalic and median limbs hair brown, flecked and irregularly 

 blotched, particularly on the external surfaces of the femora, with blackish 



12 This shows similarity in general structure to the type developed in M. 

 punctulatus punctulatus and p. arbor eus, the distal specialization being very 

 much greater and normally more acute in those races and much the more 

 decided in p. arboreus. Thus, in this respect only, p. punctulatus shows 

 a condition about intermediate between that developed in splendidus and 

 in p. arboreus. 



13 The suffusion is seen to be weak, with many darker flecks, under the 

 microscope. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLVI. 



